Re: Boot failure, VIA chipset.

Daniel Taylor (dtaylor@vocalabs.com)
Thu, 1 May 2003 05:53:53 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Daniel Taylor wrote:
> > I have a KT400-based system that will not boot the 2.5 series kernels.
> >
> > It fails with a hard lock immediately after the video mode query when
> > VGA=ask is set in /etc/lilo.conf.
> >
> > If anyone else is working on this contact me, otherwise I'll post
> > my results when I get it working.
>
> make sure you enabled
>
> CONFIG_INPUT=y
> CONFIG_VT=y
> CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
>
All enabled, and I tried last night with a stripped down 386 only kernel.

No dice, dies hard even before printing the Kernel ID.

It is probably a BIOS compatability issue, but it works OK with 2.4. Since
the system actually works as it sits I've been taking my time debugging
the 2.5 issues.

-- 
Daniel Taylor        VP Operations and Development   Vocal Laboratories, Inc.
dtaylor@vocalabs.com   http://www.vocalabs.com/        (952)941-6580x203

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